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How Are You Stepping into the New Year?

12/30/2017

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There’s a woman in my Zumba class who is always off beat. If we go left she goes right. If we go right, she goes left. Consistently. It’s like the signals from her brain are taking the scenic route to her limbs. We’re moving through air and she is struggling through Kryptonite.

Or maybe gravity is different on her home planet.

She’s either moving too slow or too fast. The latter frightens me because her arms and legs are everywhere in a flurry of unsynchronized moves that only remotely resemble what the rest of us are doing. I always think she’s gonna hurt herself or someone next to her.

If it sounds like I’m making fun of her, I’m not. She’s my favorite person in class. Why? Because she’s in class. Consistently. She does the simplest and yet hardest thing. She shows up.

She knows she’s the Medusa of Dancing: One look at her and you lose the beat too and are frozen in place trying to figure out how to get it back. What she doesn’t do is let that stop her. She doesn’t wait to start channeling her inner Alvin Ailey before she thinks she’s ready for Zumba. She just comes to class.

And I’d like to think that attitude doesn’t stop at the gym. I imagine in other areas of her life she’s giving it her all no matter what other people think, and not worrying about whether or not she’s doing it perfectly. She’s just doing it.


Now, I’m not suggesting that you take your two left feet to a Zumba class near you; (or me. I don’t need another chick flailing around in front of me, throwing off my rhythm and coordination). I am suggesting that you do the simplest and hardest thing: show up for yourself courageously, confidently, and consistently. You don’t always have to know the whole dance in order to make the first move.

So, how are you stepping into the New Year?
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    Leighann Lord is a veteran stand-up comedian, author, and podcaster. 

    She has written several humor books including: Dict Jokes: Alternate Definitions for Words You’ve Probably Never Heard of But Will Definitely Never Forget and Real Women Do It Standing Up: Stories From the Career of a Very Funny Lady, which has been called “Witty and unexpectedly vulnerable.” Both titles and more are available on Amazon.

    Leighann was the creator of the weekly humor column, The Urban Erma, which was the longest running column in Stage Time Magazine. She has contributed to The Huffington Post and wrote for the pilot of The Chris Rock Show. She is the creator and host of the People with Parents podcast, where she shares personal stories about the role reversal between adult children and their aging parents.
     
    Leighann earned her BA degree in Journalism and Creative Writing from Baruch College, City University of New York, her honorary PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Southhampton University, and is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East. In 2019 she received the Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association. 
     
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